Taken from the Magistrates' Court transcripts

For those not aware of the British legal system, most traffic offences are dealt with in the Magistrates' Court and the Magistrates are lay
people, rather than professional legal staff. The Clerk of the Court (who is legally trained) makes hand-written notes of relevant points during
the trial.

If you have read the "Crash" page, you will see that the crash occurred when both I and a lorry driven by Mr Uren overtook lorries on a 3-lane
stretch of road. The trial, in simple terms, revolved round "who was in the middle lane first?" and therefore claimed the lane to overtake. I
obviously said I overtook first and I had 2 witnesses, Mr W..... who was driving a Volvo car and was immediately following me and Mr Turk,
who was driving a car following Mr Uren's lorry. I therefore had witnesses who certified that I pulled out first from either direction. Miss S....
could only say that a crash occurred as she was following me 5 or 6 cars back.. Mr Uren alleged that he overtook first and was level with the
cab of the lorry he was overtaking when I suddenly pulled out and a crash occurred.

Then a Mr Turk appeared for the defence (we had not been given his details and in fact had not left his name Police as a possible witness)
and went and contradicted everyone in the court, including Mr Uren. The only thing he got right was the date!!!! (Was he the person I heard
arguing while trapped?). He was actually accused in Court of knowing or being paid by Mr Uren. Although the Magistrates obviously
discounted every part of his evidence, he would have appeared in the civil proceedings about liability and would have put doubt in the
Judge's mind - Mr Turk cost me 25% of my total settlement - around £125,000.

The following is taken from the court transcripts with words added to make the sentences read like English. You will see that Mr Turk
contradicts everyone and doesn't agree with even the order of the cars in the queue.

Mr Turk: (There was a) Mondeo directly in front of me, (a) Volvo in front of (the) Mondeo - then (a) flat bed lorry. and: Mr Turk gave the order
as Lorry, Volvo, Mondeo and me (Mr Turk). (When asked if he had made a mistake about the positioning of the vehicles, Mr Turk replied
that he had not made a mistake about (the) position of the vehicles and that "I can't be wrong - I was there. I'm right."

Mr W.....: Out of the blue, (a) lorry appeared from behind (the) lorry coming up (the) hill in front of the Mondeo.

Mr Turk: (I) didn't see a double decker bus. (I) saw a flat bed lorry. (there was) no double decker bus there) (Comment: If it was a flat bed
lorry, Mr Turk would have seen the bus, if it was a box artic, which it was, he had an excuse, but didn't take it.)